15 volumes in 16 : 17 cm

Greek and English on opposite pages

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 1. The education of children -- How the young man should study poetry -- On listening to lectures -- How to tell a flatterer from a friend -- How a man may become aware of his progress in virtue -- v. 2. How to profit by one's enemies -- On having many friends -- Chance -- Virtue and vice -- A letter of condolence to Apollonius -- Advice about keeping well -- Advice to bride and groom -- The dinner of the seven wise men -- Superstition -- v. 3. Sayings of kings and commanders -- Sayings of Romans -- Sayings of Spartans -- The ancient custom of the Spartans -- Sayings of Spartan women -- Bravery of women -- v. 4. The Roman questions -- The Greek questions -- Greek and Roman parallel stories -- On the fortune of the Romans -- On the fortune of Alexander -- Were the Athenians more famous in war or in wisdom? -- v. 5. Isis and Osiris -- The E at Delphi -- The oracles at Delphi no longer given in verse -- The obsolescence of oracles -- v. 6. Can virtue be taught? -- On moral virtue -- On the control of anger -- On tranquillity of mind -- On brotherly love -- On affection for offspring -- Whether vice be sufficient to cause unhappiness -- Whether the affections of the soul are worse than those of the body -- Concerning talkativeness -- On being a busybody

v. 7. On the love of wealth -- On compliancy -- On envy and hate -- On praising oneself inoffensively -- On the delays of the divine vengeance -- On fate -- On the sign of Socrates -- On exile -- Consolation to his wife -- v. 8. Table-talk : Books I-III -- Table-talk : Books IV-VI -- v. 9. Table-talk : Book VII -- Table-talk : Book VIII -- Table-talk : Book IX -- The dialogue on love -- v. 10. Love stories -- That a philosopher ought to converse especially with men in power -- To an uneducated ruler -- Whether an old man should engage in public affairs -- Precepts of statecraft -- On monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy -- That we ought not to borrow -- Lives of the ten orators -- Summary of a comparison between Aristophanes and Menander -- v. 11. On the malice of Herodotus -- Causes of natural phenomena -- v. 12. Concerning the face which appears in the orb of the moon -- On the principle of cold -- Whether fire or water is more useful -- Whether land or sea animals are cleverer -- Beasts are rational -- On the eating of flesh

v. 13, pt. 1. Platonic questions -- On the generation of the soul in the Timaeus -- Epitome of the treatise "On the generation of the soul in the Timaeus -- v. 13, pt. 2. On stoic self-contradictions -- Conspectus of the essay, "The stoics talk more paradoxically than the poets" -- Against the stoics on common conceptions -- v. 14. That Epicurus actually makes a pleasant life impossible -- Reply to Colotes in defence of the other philosophers -- Is "life unknown" a wise precept? -- On music -- v. 15. Works by Plutarch : ancient lives -- Tyrwhitt's fragments -- Fragments from lost lives -- Fragments from other named works -- Other fragments

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